Improvement in calendars



W. W. WATSON. Calendars.

No. 199,764. Patented Jan. 29,1878

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UNITEDETATES OF "WILLOUGHBYYV: WATSON, OF MONTROSE, PENNSYLVANIA.

IM PROVEMENT IN CALENDARS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 199364, dated January29, 1878 ,epplication filed June 29, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLOUGHBY W. WAT- soN, of Montrose, in the countyof Susquehanna and State of Pennsylvania, have invented an ImprovedAdjustable Calendar, Engagement-Ghart, and Desk Combined, of which thefollowing is a specification:

The object of this invention is to provide for lawyers, notaries, andother persons liable to have many engagements ahead, an adjustablecalendar and chart, combined with an adj ustable desk, the whole beingarranged to occupy no appreciable space, to be convenient for reference,and to be an ornament to the room or office.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is afront perspective view of my device. viewof the same.

A is a continuous strip of paper or other similar material, preferablyruled crosswise, as shown, with the names of the months, the numbers ofthe days of the month, and the names or initials of the days of the Weekprinted or written thereon in one or more columns, beginning at thebottom, as shown, the whole forming a continuous. calendar, arranged fordiarialpurposes. This strip is shown as rolled upon a roller, B, andprovided with an end strip, a, as in the case of a window-shade. Theroller B is hung in brackets 12 b secured to a back-board, O. Thisroller may be provided with a spring to roll up the calendar,

and a detent, or any other mountings or fix tures commonly used.

The back-board O is or may be affixed to the wall of the room or officeby means of screw-knobs c c, or in any convenient way.

D is the desk, which is thinner than the back-board, and is hinged tothe lower front edge of the same, so as to hang suspended below it. Thisdesk is provided with a prop, E, hinged to its lower edge, or near theedge, and arranged to fold up behind it.

When the desk is propped out, as in Fig. 2, the prop engages a cleat orprojection, d, secured to the wall below. The desk and prop, takentogether, equal in thickness the backboard G, so that when the prop isfolded up, as in Fig. 1, the desk will hang vertical. At 6 may be fixeda case to hold the-numerals indicatin g the year.

Fig. 2 is a side The continuous calendar-strip A may be secured at itsupper end to the roller B in any known way, and rolled thereon. The endstrip a is then attached to the lower. end of the same.

When arranged in this way, it will be seen i that by simplymanipulatingthe cord 9 the said calendar-strip may be caused to unrollor roll up, at will; and by reason of the names and numbers of the daysbeing arranged thereon in reverse, on unrolling they make theirappearance in proper order.

Memoranda of engagements which occur on any day or days compassed by thecalendarstrip may be entered thereon in a moment. In making an entry,the desk D may be lifted out at the bottom, and the prop E be permittedto slide down and engage the cleat cl, thus forming a firm support forthe desk in its in- In the drawing I have shown the numeralsand names ofthe days arranged in one column along the margin; but they may bearranged in more than one row. In such a case the length of the stripwould be reduced; but the blank space would be also reduced inproportion.

1. A continuous adjustable calendar-chart, A,provided with the names ofthe months and days and the numbers of the days of the month printedthereon, substantially as shown, beginning at the bottom and countingupward, in combination with a roller, B, on which the said calendar isarranged to roll and unroll, and a suitable back-board, G, to form adesk, all substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with the continuous calendar A, printed asdescribed, of the strip a, roller B, backboard O, desk D, and prop E,

so constructed and. arranged that the prop may In Witness whereof I havehereunto signed be folded-in behind the desk, substantially as my namein the presence of two subscribing shown and described. witnesses.

3. The combination of the calendar A con strueted and mounted as hereinspecified, the WILLOUGHBY WATSON back-board O, the desk 1), and the propE, all Witnesses: arranged substantially as herein shown and FRANKLINFRASER, specified. W. J. MULFORD.

